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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 16:10:13 GMT 1
I've not got a clue if a thread like this exists or not, If there is just ignore this  You can get immense variety in the smallest of countries, making every city, town and village unique. I thought it'd be interesting to see the uniqueness of where you live  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 16:21:03 GMT 1
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Post by Daniel on Oct 17, 2013 16:32:04 GMT 1
I'm living in   Oberhausen, Northrhine-Westphalia It's a medium sized city. Sadly, we're the city with the most debts in our state of NRW  But I love Oberhausen anyway Oberhausen is located in the west, very close to the border of  The Netherlands. We are in the middle of the famous "Ruhrpott" (Translated like... Ruhr Valley or sth  )  There are a lot of tourists from The Netherlands coming to our town because we have the biggest shopping mall in whole Europe (No, that's not why we are in debt )
This is the "CentrO" (The Shopping Mall)  You have to know that on the place of the CentrO, there was
a big company for coal. Since coal became "outdated", the company
was closed. It has been destroyed and from the leftovers, the CentrO,
our arena and our main Bus Stop had been built!   But the most famous building in Oberhausen is the "Gasometer"!
It's a remain of the old company I told of. It has been used
to store gas. Now (believe it or not) it's a museum, and for 5€
you can climp up the 592 stairs up to 117 meters height
(or take the elevator lol). You can also visit the inside of the
tower, where - every year - the 'type' of museum changes.
Two years ago, there have been planets and on the inside
there was a massive moon-statue. Last year, inside the tower
they built a massive tree. This time there's a record-construction
of a famous artist. It's quite cool to see 
 Here you can see all the districts, Oberhausen is divided in
I'm living in the region "Sterkrade-Mitte", in the center of the town.
My school is in "Schmachtendorf". You have to know that you
only need half an hour to drive through the whole city
It's not big but not very small 
I hope you liked my small introduction to my hometown
I was very bored and I love to write texts.
Thanks for reading, hope it was interesting  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 16:33:52 GMT 1
That's a shopping mall? It's like a village |
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Post by Daniel on Oct 17, 2013 16:37:58 GMT 1
That's a shopping mall? It's like a village Yes, all shops you can imagine are there Even American shops like Dunkin' Donuts |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 16:45:06 GMT 1
That's a shopping mall? It's like a village Yes, all shops you can imagine are there Even American shops like Dunkin' Donuts Our shopping center can be best showed in this video. As to why they did this, I don't know. |
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Post by Daniel on Oct 17, 2013 16:47:15 GMT 1
Yes, all shops you can imagine are there Even American shops like Dunkin' Donuts Our shopping center can be best showed in this video. As to why they did this, I don't know. Here's a tour through the whole mall |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2013 16:50:38 GMT 1
Excuse me while I book a flight there It's only 400 miles... |
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Post by Jess on Oct 17, 2013 17:20:13 GMT 1
LONDON I'm from North London; the borough I live in has a population of over 350,000. Although a lot of people assume that the borough I live in is one of the "posher" boroughs, the area I live in is considered a bit... troublesome
This is my local park. It was a big part of my childhood, although a lot has changed in recent years. I can't find any pictures of the actual playground 
Here's the local shopping centre. In general the shops are great, I love it ^^ They're planning on redeveloping/expanding the whole centre (which will include extra housing and such).
What it looks like now
What it will look like after the redevelopment
And here's the local town hall. It's not very exciting but meh 
Oh, and this was my secondary school. It's a lot bigger than it looks in this picture It's full of a few good memories (and even more bad memories), but I actually kinda miss it. It's a language college so we were able to pick from a number of languages including; French (Year 7 onwards), German (Year 8 onwards), Spanish (Was for year 10 onwards, now it's for year 7 onwards), Italian (Year 10 onwards), Japanese (Year 7 onwards), Chinese (Mandarin) (6th form), Arabic (extra) and many more.
I uploaded a few more pictures in another thread but I can't remember which one it was
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Post by 𝐴𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑎̀ on Oct 17, 2013 17:28:41 GMT 1
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Alencon, 
Braine-L'alleud and 
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